The Curve of Nature

About the Book

I am an auditor, an ambivalent observer of countless congregations repeating their verses. Numbed by doubt, I turned to audit simpler things. I watched two egrets lace the air into a curve of feathers.

About the Author

Helen S. McCloskey spent her childhood in St. Joseph, Michigan before marrying and relocating to Cambridge, Massachusetts. She studied voice and opera at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, working with Sarah Caldwell. Ms. McCloskey has written one previous book of poetry, “The Strain of Roots.” She lives between Bloomington, Indiana and Naples, Florida.